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Special guest Rachel Monroe tells Mike and Sarah what’s really behind the phrase “drinking the Kool-Aid.” Digressions include David Koresh, East Germany and how flower children were the first millennials. Mike inadvertently reveals his prejudice against extroverts. 

For more of Rachel’s work, check out her website. Recently she’s written about #vanlife, a romance scammer, essential oils and the kidnapping of a Navajo girl. Her book on women, true crime and obsession comes out next year.

Links!

• “Escape from Jonestown: https://longreads.com/2014/11/12/escape-from-jonestown/
• Rolling Stone’s 1979 article on the origin and aftermath of the massacre: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/in-the-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death-guyana-after-the-jonestown-massacre-19790125
• Interviews with Jonestown survivors from 2014: https://hazlitt.net/longreads/how-did-happen-and-how-did-i-not-see-it-coming
• “One Family’s Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre”: http://www.laweekly.com/news/from-silver-lake-to-suicide-one-familys-secret-history-of-the-jonestown-massacre-2156594
• And finally, the baby preacher! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zALqMWimBbM

Part two of our epic dissection of the Clinton impeachment scandal. This week: The story breaks, the House indicts, the Senate demurs and Mike rants more than usual about the media. Digressions include Mark Fuhrman, “Broadcast News” and gay porn. 

Links!

• An interview with Ken Gormley, the author of “Clinton vs. Starr”: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123653000
• Fascinating academic article comparing coverage of Watergate to coverage of Clinton: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464884904044937
• “Book: Hillary Clinton Error Led to Impeachment”: https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/04/25/book-hillary-clinton-error-led-to-impeachment
• Unchained Reaction: The Collapse of Media Gatekeeping and the Clinton–Lewinsky Scandal: https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=asc_papers
• Sex, Politics, and Public Opinion: What Political Scientists Really Learned From the Clinton-Lewinsky Scandal: https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1045&context=polisci_pubs

Some links!

The 1974 New Yorker story on the Stockholm bank robbery: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/11/25/the-bank-drama

“The Hearst Nightmare,” also from 1974:  http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,911211-1,00.html

A well-argued academic paper from 1993, “Understanding Women’s Responses to Domestic Violence: A Redefinition of Battered Woman Syndrome”:  https://scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1873&context=hlr